1839
Commercial Electric Telegraph
Supports installation of electric telegraph wires beside the Great Western Railway.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Great Western Railway in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Supports installation of electric telegraph wires beside the Great Western Railway.
The Paddington-West Drayton link becomes an early commercial telegraph installation.
Completion of the main line allows continuous railway travel between London and Bristol in about four hours.
Provenance
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